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PATENTED MAY 16, 1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. SHORT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITE- HEAD &HOAG COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,083, dated May 16,1905. Application filed September 6, 1904:. Serial No. 223,455.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that -I, JosEPH B. Snonnof Newark, in the county of Essex,in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements inPins, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a full. clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in pins which are adapted moreparticularly to support abadge, ticket, or price-list, and when used asa badge may be attached or inserted in the lapel of the coat or otherapparel, and

when used as a ticket or price-card holder may be inserted in any fabricor soft material.

The object of this invention is to produce a pin so constructed that abadge, sample-ticket, or card may be readily secured thereto, cheap anddurable in construction, and of great utility; and to that end myinvention consists in the several new and novel features of constructionhereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims hereuntoannexed.

It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 shows a view of a sample-card secured withinthe eye of the pin. Fig. 2shows a side View thereof, the card incross-section.

The pin is constructed with the usual shank a, terminating at a point atits lower end and its upper end bent to'form an eye I) and terminatingin a head 0, the outer face of the 'head 0 lying at a slightly-obliqueangle, as

shown in Fig. 2, for the set forth.

d is a badge, ticket, or price-card which is adapted to be held andcarried by-the' pin and purposes hereinafter which is pierced by thesharp point of the shank a near the periphery thereof and then drawnalong said shank so that it passes between the head 0 and the shank andthen is thrown over to the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. .Itwill thus be observed that the factof the head lying at an oblique angleto the shank permits of the card being drawn up into the angle andforces the head sufficiently out to permit of the ticket pass ing aroundinto the eye, while, on the other hand, the fact that the upper edge ofthe head lies closer to the shank prevents the ticket from working itsway into a position which will enable it to be readily drawn downthrough the narrow space between the head and the shank. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A badge comprising a pin having the upper portion thereof bent toform an eye and terminating in a head, and a card perforated adjacentits periphery by the shank and drawn into the eye and suspended thereonin front of said head for the purposes specified.

2. A badge, comprising a headed and pointed pin having a circular eyeformed at its headed end, and a card pierced near its periphery for thepassage ,of the pin andsuspended on the lower part of the eye in frontof said head.

{In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of August,1904.

JOSEPH B. SHORT.

Witnesses:

J. O. COSTELLO, JAMES 0. DAY.

